The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-10-23
EVENTS AND COMMENTS.

OMAHA Republican: - The day on
which Sparks is not oVerruled is usually
Sunday.
PHILADELPHIA mes:-Therei is plenty
of room at the top and i'll Henry Ward
Beecher's shoes.
THIRrY-sIx thousand two hundred
and twenty-six laborers struck during
the month of September in this country.
THE BAsEBALLIsT will, in few short
weeks now, retire to winter quarters,
and the country will have few months
respite.
THE NEW paper at Rome, Ca, is called
The Tribune of Rome. 1t will have bet
ter luck than many other new papers if
its se1zers turn out to be subscribers and
not sheriffs.
THERE SEEMS to be no doubt that the
system of Irish evictions has been i'm
ported into Republican Iowa, and just
now the Republican State officials are
squirming to escape responsibility.
THE NEBRASKA Republicans view
with alarm" again in their new plat
form. Will not some political conven-
ton please to give us a slight surcease
of this, and "observe with dismay?"
PHILADELPHIA BuLIetin:-rhe very
men who were the loudest in cry
ing down Roscoe Conkling and forcing
him into retirement are now the most
active in endeavoring to induce him to
come to the front and make a speech
for the Republican ticket in New York.
THE FOLLOWING is the speech that Col.
Fred Grant makes before New York Re-
publican audiences:
want to thank You for this very cordial
reception, and to say to you how proud am
to bear name the mention OF which makes
such applause. Should l be elected in
November / shall try and show you that at
least have inherited the ability to be faith
full to the duties and trusts that you VIII i'm
pose upon me.
AMONG THE numerous devices resorted
to by persons who make a business of
cheating the revenue there has not ap-
peared one this year which bears the
stamp of originality. Poor Colonel Sell
lers could have given the smugglers
point of value. It is ostriches. The
ostrich will swallow an entire jewelers.
shop.
The New YoRK Mail and Express,
simon pure grand old party, speaking Of
the color line in Ohio, says:
The Ohio colored people are making a
mistake in demanding admission to the
schools intended exclusively for white
children.
The colored people will please join in
the chorus and insist that separate
schools for the races is loyalty in Ohio
and treason in Georgia.
THE VALUATION of property for taxa
ton in New York State for 1887 is: Real
estate, So OPS, OOO, 600; personal property
1896, 1896, 900; total. $500 89S 900. Real
estate shows an increase of S125, 1872 900,
or Az per cent, and personally an in
crease of $M, lis, 900. The figures for
New York City are 81 ,2O3, 9n 900 real es-
tate and SIG, $3.50, 600 personality in
crease of $119, 725, 900.
TIE" personal Liberty" party, organ
lied in Buffalo, has fairly taken its posi-
ton in the New York canvass. 1t j.
composed of German societies, and its
platform is The sale of liquor between
the hours of p. m. and II o'clock on
Sunday" The party claims 100000
votes in the States. Its members are
pledged to vote only for candidates whe
will agree to support the demand.
REV. DR. CROSBY says "drunkards
should be Stunned like Iepers." Some
drunkards are pretty bad. to be sure,
but the reverend gentleman referred to
is entirely too sweeping in his denun-
citation of them. If drunkenness were
made punishable, instead of the sale of
liquor, there would be considerable less
Of it than there is: but as it is a natural
vice, it will never be thoroughly eradi-
Gated.
SAYS OLD Allen Thompson: when
i am in the woods 1 never use COM
pass; in fact don't need any. There
are three sure ways that have of find
ing the points of the compass. You
Will notice that three-fourths of the
moss on trees grows on the north side;
the heaviest boughs on spruce trees are
always on the south side, and, thirdly,
the topmost twig of every uninjured